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Project: Fostering Ethical Democracy and Advancing Micro Justice in India
Evaluation Date: September 2018
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Grantees should take care to adapt the information used in capacity-building exercises to the needs of the target groups. Grantees should consider adapting the information into more accessible or creative forms such as role plays, dramas, or art, or delivering information in conjunction with other activities meeting beneficiary needs (such as sports, life skills workshops) to bring key messages across.

Theme: Rule of law

India audience, audience knowledge, beneficiaries, context, local needs

Project: Preparing Iraqi women as leaders, advocates, participants in the political field
Evaluation Date: October 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project’s communication via newspaper and website produced mixed results. The content for media communications needs to be relevant to the target audience(s).

Theme: Women's empowerment

Iraq audience, communication

Project: Empowering Rural Communities in Bhutan through Mass Media
Evaluation Date: December 2022
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

As digital technologies take hold, two ways media-community audience engagement will only become richer and more complex. New technology can upset the methodology and content of any capacity-building programme approved and designed by the grantee. Therefore, there is a need to remain alert about new technology and devise innovative forms of audience research online and offline.

Theme: Interaction with government, Media

Bhutan adapt, app, application, approach, audience, capacity, community, content, digital, engagement, innovation, journalism, method, project design, social media, training

Project: Building Democratic Spaces in Egypt
Evaluation Date: March 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The “Public Awareness” component of the project was merely an add-on to other activities. There was no plan concerning the intended audience for activities or events. No thought was given to how the “booklets” and other documents produced were to be distributed, and no consideration was given to providing guidance on how the documents were to be employed.

Theme: Community activism

Egypt audience, awareness

Project: Empowering people through citizens’ journalism in Albania
Evaluation Date: October 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project objectives and activities were relevant given the difficulties of youth and civil society organizations in Albania to access the media, voice their opinion or raise social issues. Although the Albanian media is free, mainstream media requires payment for airtime that NGOs cannot afford, and it has shown a general lack of interest in covering social issues as part of the news. Organizations were extremely interested in obtaining access to media, especially if it was free of charge and could reach a national audience as was intended with the university radio in Tirana. Participating youth were interested in citizen journalism and reporting on social issues.

Theme: Media

Albania audience, youth

Project: Civic Education and Civil Society Empowerment in Remote Areas in Myanmar
Evaluation Date: December 2012
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

Trainings were viewed as inflexible and were not tailored to regional issues. The same curriculum was used across all trainings, regardless of the local context. Training would have been more effective if it had not used a traditional lecture-based teaching style and allowed for more group discussion and consensus building. The number subjects covered should have been carefully assessed and on the basis of lessons learnt by trainers, trimmed down to a lesser number. Training would have gained in depth and in substance and could have had more value for participants.

Theme: Community activism

Myanmar audience, curriculum, training

Project: Rights and freedoms for all in Togo
Evaluation Date: September 2010
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The production of broadcasts in Togo involved a partnership with Radio Lomé, which was effective at getting messages across. The media regulation authority, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Electoral Commission were involved as resource persons for training activities and content. It is recommended that the grantee continues to develop and formalize these partnerships.

Theme: Community activism

Togo audience, radio

Project: Towards a better electoral process in Mongolia
Evaluation Date: November 2011
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The grantee reused and repackaged its training materials for use with different actors, which it then tailored to their individual needs. As an example, the pocket handbook and audio tape for the police and use of the same graphics for all handbook and DVD covers.

Theme: Community activism

Mongolia adapt, audience, training

Project: Strengthening Media to Promote Inclusive Democracy in Mali
Evaluation Date: January 2023
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

It is widely accepted that local community radios continue to be the medium most established and most used and trusted (for news and information) by people in Mali and other countries in the Central Sahel region – especially in remote areas where access to print media and television is more limited. However, the use and influence of social media is already significant and is expected to grow – and should be part of any context-setting, if not the subject of direct activity, in future projects supporting the media sector.

Theme: Media

Mali audience, democracy, digital, human rights, information, journalism, media, news, outreach, project design, radio, reach, scope

Project: Creation of Women's Parliament in Azerbaijan
Evaluation Date: July 2012
Report: [report link]

Lesson Learned:

The project focused on creating a wider and long-lasting impact by producing the CEDAW Shadow Report for Azerbaijan which can possibly influence the legislature in the country. While the grantee focused its advocacy on this report, it remains uncertain to which extent the report will be taken on board.

Theme: Community activism

Azerbaijan audience, impact

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